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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2.2002.758
People
Andreas Feininger, American (Paris 1906 - 1999 New York City)
Title
Ice Crystals
Classification
Photographs
Work Type
photograph
Date
1948
Places
Creation Place: North America, United States
Culture
American
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/158688

Physical Descriptions

Technique
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 27.5 x 34.5 cm (10 13/16 x 13 9/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: verso of mount, upper edge, in black ink: Andreas Feininger
  • inscription: verso of mount, u.l. corner (if oriented vertically), in black ink, partially truncated along left edge: Ice Crystals - 1948 - Andreas Feininger
    [L]inhof 50mm Lens
    _5x on print
    [o]ne flood - shot at
    [n]ight - light dim
    [b]ecause melts,
    work fast - ruined
    first few.
    B2023

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Transfer from the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
Accession Year
2011
Object Number
2.2002.758
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Exhibition History

  • Fifty Photographs, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, 07/06/2016 - 09/24/2016

Subjects and Contexts

  • The Bauhaus

Verification Level

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